The state-of-the-art,185,000-square-foot Scientology Dissemination and Distribution Center in Los Angeles, designed to meet the unprecedented demand for Scientology services and programs by providing dissemination materials on a global scale.

The reception of the Dissemination and Distribution Center, which produces publications and other dissemination materials for the more than 9,000 Scientology Churches, Missions and affiliated groups.

The on-site conference room, for the planning of publication and distribution through the international network of Scientology Organizations and sponsored groups.

The only one of its kind, the Scientology Dissemination and Distribution Center houses cutting-edge technology honed to maximum output.

The 121-ton web press uses 10-mile-long paper rolls and can print 55,000 pages per hour, in more than a dozen languages.

With its ability to rapidly reconfigure for new jobs, the web press can print more than 600,000 pieces each day, in every language required for the global dissemination of Scientology and its sponsored programs.

Moving from the web and sheetfed presses through the bindery, tens of thousands of pages of magazines and other publications can be produced daily in multiple languages to make the Scientology religion broadly known.

On the printing floor, color quality and alignment is checked and perfected on each promotional piece coming out of the sheetfed press.

With equipment handling every function from printing to cutting, folding, binding and sorting, the Center can prepare 250,000 human rights DVD mailers in a day, or two million booklets in a week.

The Center’s printing facilities produce magazines, brochures, booklets, portfolios and other printed pieces for Scientology Churches and affiliated groups around the world.

The superwide-format printer and banner welder can create banners large enough to span the face of high-rise buildings, for broadscale dissemination of Church-sponsored social betterment campaigns, such as the Truth About Drugs program.

The facility includes a full division to equip every Church with ideal audiovisual systems for their bookstores, seminar rooms and film rooms, ensuring the best sight and sound quality.

Housed within the Center, the Scientology Custom Mill features a broad array of tools required for the creation of all signage and other elements of an Ideal Organization of Scientology including woodworking equipment, metal-etching and cutting machines, painting and polishing booths, a plastics molding system and in-house artisans to give each new Ideal Church its distinctive style.

Every creed, code, and Chapel cross that line the walls of Ideal Scientology Organizations can now be created in-house in the Church’s Custom Mill.

One machine in the Church’s Custom Mill can cut virtually any pattern into glass, stone or plastic, as well as steel up to 6 inches thick. In this way, custom design elements unique to each Ideal Church Organization are created at the new Dissemination and Distribution Center.

The new 185,000-square-foot Scientology Dissemination and Distribution Center is a one-of-a-kind printing and production facility. It houses manufacturing, distribution and administration all under one roof and is manned entirely by Church staff members. This new Center generates dissemination materials for the more than 10,000 Scientology Churches, Missions and affiliated groups worldwide, enabling these organizations to meet the unprecedented demand for Scientology services and programs.

The 121-ton web press uses 10-mile-long paper rolls and can print 55,000 pages per hour, in more than a dozen languages.

The anchor of the printing plant is a custom-built 121-ton web press. Among other materials, it prints Church magazines in 15 languages, with a global circulation of millions. The press accommodates these diverse needs with the capability to automatically switch print jobs from one language to another. It prints at a rate of 55,000 pages per hour. The facility additionally includes both sheet-fed and digital presses to produce the hundreds of thousands of informational pieces Church organizations use to introduce their communities to the Scientology religion and its services.

The Scientology Dissemination and Distribution Center further produces all educational materials for Church-sponsored humanitarian programs, including the world’s largest non-governmental human rights initiative and the world’s largest non-governmental drug awareness program. The Church provides these educational materials to schools, civic groups, government, law enforcement and institutions in the private sector free of charge. Inasmuch as all materials are now produced in-house, for the same it previously cost to produce 3.5 million drug education booklets, the Church can now produce 35 million and reach 10 times the number of at-risk youth.

The facility further includes a warehousing and distribution department. The mailing system is fully automated and is capable of addressing 150,000 pieces every eight hours. The entire shipping line is capable of shipping better than 500,000 boxes and individual items each week.

With the new Scientology Dissemination and Distribution Center, the Church now has the capability to provide its help to millions more on every continent in accomplishing its aims: A Civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights.

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